You're the David Irving of the Hamas pogrom.
Here's the link from the very anti-Israel BBC of Hamas' livestreamed orgy of necrophilic rape, mutilation and torture: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181
https://twitter.com/amichaistein1/status/1716495492849299539
I could send 100 other links. But just google Hamas GoPro rape mutilation.
Under the UN's clause iv. a combatant firing an RPG from a school or hospital removes that object's protection as a civilian object in proportion to the military advantage to be gained by that combatant's opponent. When Hamas removes the principal of distinction between civilians and combatants, it's Hamas' war crime, not its opponent's. Once Hamas' uses that object as a firing position it is no longer undefended and transforms it into a military objective. That's the law. Read the law:
v. "Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;"
The use of human shields is a war crime clause:
xxiii. Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;
Hamas openly proclaims its tactic of using human shields and son of Hamas' founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef confirms it, as does Palestinian peace activist Bassam Eid and numerous interviews with Gazan civilians. But you choose to unsee this.
Other Hamas war crimes according to the UN:
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
Wilful killing
Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
Declaring that no quarter will be given;
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;"
Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
Taking of hostages;
The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable."
If Israel has "occupied" Gaza since 2005, so has Egypt with its land and sea blockade.
75 years? Who occupied the West Bank and Gaza from 1948-67?
Genocide: reread Lemkin, who was a better lawyer than your Groucho Marxist lawyer who failed the international law bar exam. Genocide requires intentionality. Gaza's population in 2005: 1.345m. Now: 2.1m. This makes Israel the least competent genocidaire power in human history. Would a genocidal army make 30000 phone calls (before the hostage exchange pause) to civilians notifying them that they're in a targeted area? Your definition of genocide is inaccurately rhetorical and colloquial, not legal, as Lemkin formulated it:
"Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in his 1944 book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe",[7][8] combining the Greek word γένος (genos, "race, people") with the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing").[9][10] In "Axis rule", Lemkin documents his research of Nazi occupation policies in Europe, and records a case study of the occupation of Poland. Lemkin asserted that Nazi atrocities against Poles consisted of five policies which exposed their "intent to destroy" the Polish nation. These included i) mass-killings of Poles ii) inflicting "serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" iii) planned deterioration of living conditions "calculated to bring about their destruction" iv) implementation of various "measures intended to prevent births within the group" such as promotion of abortions, burdening pregnant women, etc. v) forced transfer of Polish children to German families. Each of these five markers, according to Lemkin, revealed the Nazi plan to eliminate the Polish identity with certainty. These five criteria were adopted by the 1948 Genocide Convention as its proof for the concept of genocidal intent."
"Lemkin defined genocide as follows:
New conceptions require new terms. By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as tyrannicide, homicide, infanticide, etc. Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group.[9]"
